Changing Effect Types - Alesis 2 Reference Manual

Chapter 4 - Making Your Own Patches
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Press [PAGE >] twice to advance to Type Page 3.
The display will look like this:
MOVE BLOCK: 1 INTO BLOCK 2
The right half of the display will flash.
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Use the [VALUE/ENTER] knob to select which Block you want to move (1–8).
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Press [PAGE >] to advance the cursor to the next field.
MOVE BLOCK: 1 INTO BLOCK 2
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Turn the [VALUE/ENTER] knob to select where you want to move it to (1–8).
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Press [VALUE/ENTER] to execute the move.
If the selected destination is already occupied by a defined Block, the Blocks will
slide into the now-vacant positions.

Changing Effect Types

If you already have defined a Block and assigned its routings, you can still change its
Function and Effect Type. Usually, this doesn't disturb anything else. However, if the
Block was defined as a mono effect and you change it to a stereo effect, the
QuadraVerb 2 will make the necessary changes in routings, and vice-versa.
Here's an example: Let's say you have a Mono Delay Block that has its mono output
(M) routed to the R OUT. Now you go into Type mode and change it to a Stereo
Delay. As soon as you press the [VALUE/ENTER] button and make the change, the
display momentarily reads:
CONVERTING MONO ROUTES TO
STEREO
Now, the Block has three outputs: L (left), R (right), and M (mono). In this case, the
QuadraVerb 2 automatically assigned the R output of the Delay to the R OUT. Since
the M output of the Delay Block had originally gone to the R OUT, the QuadraVerb 2
assumed you wanted to continue having the Block go to this output. So, logically, it
routed the Block's new R output to the R OUT.
Let's say we did the opposite; i.e., change a stereo effect into mono. The exact
opposite would happen. Once we changed the stereo effect into a mono effect type,
the display would momentarily read:
CONVERTING STEREO ROUTES
TO MONO
In this case, if only one of the effects outputs had been routed to one of the
QuadraVerb 2's OUTS, it would be rerouted to come from the new mono Block's M
output. If both the Left and Right outputs of the stereo Block were connected to the
LR OUT, then the mono effect's M out would now be connected to both the L OUT
and R OUT.
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